Senior ML Engineer - Local Search & Knowledge

Apple Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Stock programs

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an experienced ML Engineer to own the ML development cycle for search and local information applications. You will lead model development across retrieval, ranking, and query understanding to improve Siri and Spotlight results.

The role emphasizes learning-to-rank, embeddings, and reinforcement learning techniques, with mentoring responsibilities and collaboration across teams to deliver high-quality maps-related experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, or deep learning.
• Deep understanding of ML theory, including supervised learning, ranking models, embeddings, representation learning, and evaluation metrics.
• Proven ability to apply advanced ML techniques to improve search relevance and retrieval quality at scale.
• Experience leading experimentation, offline evaluation, and online A/B testing for iterative improvements in search quality.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work independently or in a team.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in ML or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire ML development cycle from opportunity analysis, exploration, and prototyping to data collection, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and deployment in production.
• Lead the development of machine learning models to improve search quality across retrieval, ranking, reranking, and query understanding.
• Improve search quality and experience by leveraging techniques such as learning-to-rank, embedding models, contrastive learning, multi-task learning, and reinforcement learning where appropriate.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership in architecting ML systems and designing ML models.
• Understand product requirements, then translate them into modeling tasks and engineering tasks.

Skills

Information retrieval

NLP

Machine learning

Deep learning

Education

Master's Degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an experienced ML Engineer to own the ML development cycle for search and local information applications. You will lead model development across retrieval, ranking, and query understanding to improve Siri and Spotlight results.

The role emphasizes learning-to-rank, embeddings, and reinforcement learning techniques, with mentoring responsibilities and collaboration across teams to deliver high-quality maps-related experiences.